Listening Without Borders

Creating Spaces for Encountering Difference

Magdalena Kubanyiova, Parinita Shetty, Magdalena Kubanyiova, Parinita Shetty

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781788921046
• eBook ISBN: 9781788921077
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

This book asks what it takes for people to encounter one another ethically when practices, worldviews and imaginations clash. It engages over 40 contributors across geographies, disciplines, art forms and practices in a conversation that touches on topics ranging from the climate catastrophe to the disintegration of the welfare state and the erasure of certain bodies from public spaces. It is concerned with how these 'big' questions play out in 'small' everyday encounters in classrooms, rehearsal rooms, arts projects, charity events or city markets. The book's polyphonic text does not present answers to its central questions in the way a typical research publication might do. Instead, it creates a flow and invites the reader to join a conversation. By refusing to deliver an argument, the book opens new possibilities for relating to others in the academy and arts. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgment
• 1 Introduction to Listening Without Borders
• 2 Communicating Within, Between and Beyond Social Categories
• 3 Encountering through Storytelling
• 4 Negotiating Discomfort Together
• 5 Making Space for Encountering Difference